• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.117-130
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• 2021

The purpose of this paper is to study users' intention on paid game items through language network analysis. The functional item buying group considered the capabilities and strength of the game character as the most important factor for the winning of the games while the decorative game item buying users considered self-satisfaction for the unique outfit of their game character. Moreover, they reflected their game characters as themselves and another ego.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.419-424
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• 2007

Recently, additional value of games has been started to increase by revitalization of the game market. Especially, Because of the creation of the new trend that is item trade especially in online game, Item trade is as a easy and essential way as item trade can be created. However, compared to other planning factors, occupied weight of item is not as much as expected in exploiting a game. For this reason, we emphasize the importance of game item by giving the opportunity that increases the additional value with raising satisfaction of game through item-based study, plus suggesting new classification.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.438-441
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 게임연구의 초기 과정에 속하는 2D엑션 게임을 기획, 연구, 개발한 결과물을 기술하였다. 2D 횡 스크롤 게임방식인 액션게임으로 획득하는 아이템을 통해 새로운 기술(무기)를 얻으며 소환수가 동반된다. 또한 기존 프로그램은 한 화면 당 출연하게 되는 적군의 수가 제한적이었으나 본 연구에서 개발한 게임은 플레이어가 적군을 섬멸할 때의 쾌감을 높이기 위하여 한 화면당의 적군의 수를 평균 적군 출현 수 보다 높게 조정하여 타격감을 높였다. 그리고 아이템을 획득하게 되면 미량의 아이템을 사용한 후 아이템의 사용이 바로 중단되어 플레이어들에게 아쉬움을 주었으나 본 프로그램에서는 한번 획득한 아이템은 다음 아이템을 획득하기 전까지 영구적으로 사용할 수 있게 제작되어 그 아쉬움을 줄였고, 스테이지의 끝에서는 보스를 파괴하는 스테이지 게임의 구현 결과물이다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.41-52
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• 2007

Presently, the online game industry of Korea are growing up fastly. The growth of online game give rise to the new problem of regulation on Real Money Trade(RMT). This article analyzed the market failure of RMT, and showed whether or not the government regulate RMT. The results showed that the RMT has efficiency in monopoly and external economie, and inefficiency in external diseconomies and uncertainty. But, the inefficiency in external diseconomie and uncertainty is based on the regulation of RMT by the game company. So, it is necessary for government to deregulate the RMT for curing the inefficiency of RMT.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.265-266
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• 2012

최근 모바일 시장의 급격한 발전으로 인하여 스마트폰 기능 또한 다양해져 사용자 또한 다양한 계층에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나 스마트폰 게임은 유료든 무료든 게임 대부분이 현금을 주고 아이템을 구매할 수 있는 부분 유료화 정책을 실시하고 있기 때문에 구매능력이 없는 청소년도 쉽게 게임 아이템을 쉽게 구매할 수 있는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 지불능력이 없는 청소년이 온라인게임 상에 물품을 구입할 경우 청소년의 부모에게 게임 아이템 구입 확인 메시지를 게임업체가 전달하여 승인 코드를 전달받아야만 게임 관련 물품을 구입할 수 있는 게임 지불 메커니즘을 제안하고자 한다.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze online game user's game items transacting behaviors for the two game genres such as MMORPG and sports game. For the sake of conducting the analysis, we adopted a fuzzy logic agent-based modeling. In the online game fields, game items transactions are crucial to game company's profitability. However, there are lack of previous studies investigating the online game user's game items transacting activities. Since many factors need to be addressed in a complicated way, ABM (agent-based modeling) simulation mechanism is adopted. Besides, a fuzzy logic is also considered due to the fact that a number of uncertainties and ambiguities exist with respect to online game user's complex behaviors in transacting game items. Simulation results from applying the fuzzy logic ABM method revealed that MMORPG game users are motivated to pay expensive price for high-performance game items, while sports game users tend to transact game items within a reasonable price range. We could conclude that the proposed fuzzy logic ABM simulation mechanism proved to be very useful in organizing an effective strategy for online game items management and customers retention.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.51-62
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• 2018

Recently, there has been an increasing social concern over the use of random reward game items. In this paper, we try to understand the effect of using random reward game on adolescents based on the survey data over a year. In addition, regression analysis was conducted to examine how socio-psychological variables affect the game addiction of adolescents according to use of random reward games. As a result of analysis, it was found that the random reward game use group had lower self esteem and higher material value than the normal game use group. Also, self esteem and material value have a significant effect on game addiction. And finally, the results and implications were discussed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.113-122
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• 2019

The study classifies online game users with two groups, which are users who purchase functional items and emotional items. This research used statistic tool, STATA MP, trying unpaired t-test to find relationships between two groups on payment intention and characteristics. The result shows that the users with functional items prefer community-oriented mind and interaction with other users while users with emotional items intend to consider item's design and superiority with higher purchasing satisfaction. The result of this study seems to give some implications to game companies when improving its purchasing system with charged items.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.95-104
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• 2018

This study analyzes the system of Loot Box in Overwatch, FPS genre game produced by an American company Blizzard. Currently, one of the most controversial issues in the recent industry is "Probability-Type Item" that game users purchase high-end game items as a form of lottery. As this study examines a foreign case of Loot Box that is similar to Probability-Type Item, it would show how it is constructed and does legal approaches. Throughout this, it not only analyzes pros and cons of the Loot Box system, but also provides thought-provoking messages for the issue of the Probability-Type Item.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.153-160
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• 2013

Online game provides a kind of cyber money aden and game instruments, items in order to attract game users. Game users want stronger, better and higher-leveled items with competition. Demands and supplies on items are formed and the transactions are made. The problem is there happen frequently illegal behaviors in the process of transactions. Among these illegal behaviors, for using other's id and password without authorization and stealing items, rejecting to return assigned items, providing stolen item to other who knows the fact or destroying others' items, it is difficult to apply provisions on properties in the criminal code on them. Because the criminal code has a duty to prevent separation between substantial criminal behavior and regulations, it should reflect substantial cultures and values of the times. Therefore, property like items in cyber space can be considered as new property to need to be protect under the criminal code and it may be not an interpretation of expansion. The reason is it is practical and reasonable to judge whether propertiness can be established considering cyber space's unique characteristics. It is time to review propertiness of Article No. 346 according to the request of times of the digital age.